Japanese beggar in Philippines

[Iloko]

A Japanese national which some fellow Pinoys have discovered to be living on the street. They gave him some coffee and food due to his unfortunate situation.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN8RAjgzBu4

[1R0N M4N XL]

is he Japanese citizen or a Philippine citizen?

[Iloko]

is he Japanese citizen or a Philippine citizen?
I've believe he's a full-blooded Japanese born-n-raised in Japan. He later migrated to Philippines but then due to unfortunate circumstances lost all of his money here then ended up homeless. It appears he learned to speak some Tagalog along the way!

[zarzian]

Maybe he is another long lost WW2 japanese soldier such as Onoda who spent 30 years in the jungles of Phillipines after WW2 ended, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroo_Onoda , apparently there was more then just 1 soldier who stayed hidden in the Phillipines forests years after WW2 , they kept killing local Philipinos because they still believed that the war was on. They had strict orders to not surrender or come out until they got direct orders from their generals, since that order never came, they kept fighting and hiding in the forests, this speak volumes about Japanese honour.

[1R0N M4N XL]

Maybe he is another long lost WW2 japanese soldier such as Onoda who spent 30 years in the jungles of Phillipines after WW2 ended, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroo_Onoda , apparently there was more then just 1 soldier who stayed hidden in the Phillipines forests years after WW2 , they kept killing local Philipinos because they still believed that the war was on. They had strict orders to not surrender or come out until they got direct orders from their generals, since that order never came, they kept fighting and hiding in the forests, this speak volumes about Japanese honour.

that guy is baddasss… he needs a movie

[Westbrook]

What a god awful place to be homeless.

[Iloko]

Maybe he is another long lost WW2 japanese soldier such as Onoda who spent 30 years in the jungles of Phillipines after WW2 ended, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroo_Onoda , apparently there was more then just 1 soldier who stayed hidden in the Phillipines forests years after WW2 , they kept killing local Philipinos because they still believed that the war was on. They had strict orders to not surrender or come out until they got direct orders from their generals, since that order never came, they kept fighting and hiding in the forests, this speak volumes about Japanese honour.
Maybe. My observation with living in Manila was that those East Asians who prefer to migrate here these days are mostly Koreans and Chinese. In fact more Koreans are settling here than Chinese these days. It's much more affordable for these Koreans to live in Philippines, many even go here to learn English/Philippine-English, to them Philippines is the summer capital of Asia lol. Large waves of Koreans have been moving here since 2006. With Chinese there's always been a fairly sizable population of them here since more ancient times...Filipinos' genetic makeup actually consists of around 20% Han-like admixture in fact. But recently, I believe since 2016 more and more Chinese than usual are invading Manila.

From an article online regarding the flooding of Chinese immigrants:


An estimated 100,000 migrants, mostly Chinese, have flooded into pockets of the Philippines capital since September 2016, and the deluge is rippling through the city’s real-estate market in ways that are unique among the world’s urban centers. While Chinese investors have been snapping up big swathes of high-end housing in Hong Kong, London and New York for years to move their money offshore, this new rush is motivated by something different: Manila’s booming gaming industry.

More than 50 offshore gambling companies that cater to overseas Chinese punters have received permits to operate in the city since President Duterte’s administration began awarding licenses 19 months ago. While bets are placed remotely, the operators need Chinese speakers in Manila to handle everything from marketing and customer queries to payment processing for overseas clients.

The resulting migration, while only a fraction of the metropolitan area’s 12.9 million population, is propelling home prices to record levels in neighborhoods favored by Chinese workers. It’s reinvigorating Manila’s commercial property market as owners convert offices and shops into gaming centers with card tables and webcams. And it’s boosting the bottom lines of local developers, including Ayala Land Inc. and SM Prime Holdings Inc.


The Japanese on the other hand mostly come to Philippines for short visit only, I believe you'll often spot them in the various different entertainment and resort areas here. From what I know the Japanese don't really come here to settle permanently..it's mostly Koreans and Chinese who do that. Some Japanese do conduct business matters here on occasion though. They also assist the Filipinos in developing Manila's transportation systems and infrastructure and such.

[tekken999]

I believe there have been some expats from western countries like the uk that have ended up homeless in japan. I heard one story of a tourist in japan giving a beggar covered in blankets money and hearing him respond back with "thanks chap" in a native British accent to the guys surprise.

[Iloko]

I believe there have been some expats from western countries like the uk that have ended up homeless in japan. I heard one story of a tourist in japan giving a beggar covered in blankets money and hearing him respond back with "thanks chap" in a native British accent to the guys surprise.
Yeah I think such cases are a little rare but it does happen.

[1R0N M4N XL]

Maybe. My observation with living in Manila was that those East Asians who prefer to migrate here these days are mostly Koreans and Chinese. In fact more Koreans are settling here than Chinese these days. It's much more affordable for these Koreans to live in Philippines, many even go here to learn English/Philippine-English, to them Philippines is the summer capital of Asia lol. Large waves of Koreans have been moving here since 2006. With Chinese there's always been a fairly sizable population of them here since more ancient times...Filipinos' genetic makeup actually consists of around 20% Han-like admixture in fact. But recently, I believe since 2016 more and more Chinese than usual are invading Manila.

From an article online regarding the flooding of Chinese immigrants:


The Japanese on the other hand mostly come to Philippines for short visit only, I believe you'll often spot them in the various different entertainment and resort areas here. From what I know the Japanese don't really come here to settle permanently..it's mostly Koreans and Chinese who do that. Some Japanese do conduct business matters here on occasion though. They also assist the Filipinos in developing Manila's transportation systems and infrastructure and such.

stop spreading that.. chinese are no more than 2% of the population.. that 20% showing the DNA from taiwan native austronesians. even vietnamese/thailand/malaysia doesnt have 20% chinese DNA in the native population

[sailormoon]

It's estimated that there are around a few hundred homeless Japanese expats in the Philippines. Most of them are over 60, who spent all of their retirement money (around $300,000) on Filipino wives. And they were abandoned by their Filipino wives after their money ran out and ended up homeless in Manila. The Japanese government does little to help them because their families back home think they got what they deserve after chasing after young foreign women.

[arkas]

For his classification, he has Ainuid influence for sure.

Ishikawa, leaning more on the Ainuid phenotype imo.

http://humanphenotypes.net/Ishikawa.html

[Westbrook]

It's estimated that there are around a few hundred homeless Japanese expats in the Philippines. Most of them are over 60, who spent all of their retirement money (around $300,000) on Filipino wives. And they were abandoned by their Filipino wives after their money ran out and ended up homeless in Manila. The Japanese government does little to help them because their families back home think they got what they deserve after chasing after young foreign women.

Seems like it would take a really long time to run out of $300k in Phillipines

[Iloko]

It's estimated that there are around a few hundred homeless Japanese expats in the Philippines. Most of them are over 60, who spent all of their retirement money (around $300,000) on Filipino wives. And they were abandoned by their Filipino wives after their money ran out and ended up homeless in Manila. The Japanese government does little to help them because their families back home think they got what they deserve after chasing after young foreign women.
Makes sense. I even know some half Japanese Pinoys here in Manila. This one half Japanese Pinoy I know has a Japanese father who married a Filipina and gave birth to him..then left him to be raised by Filipino guardian parents while they as the real parents stayed abroad working in Japan--the mother working in the entertainment industry in fact. But last year the guy being a Japanese citizen moved back to Japan and now works in a warehouse there making decent money and was able to buy a car while living with his mom and finding a new girlfriend there who was also a half Japanese-Pinoy. He's a pretty young guy too, just in his early-20s and pretty much grew up in Philippines as a Filipino.. These random Japanese men must have spawned quite a number of half-breed offsprings that many might not even be aware of.

During the Classical period some sources say that when the Spaniards reached the island of Luzon in 1571 they found Japanese colonies and settlements in Manila and in some parts of the Cagayan Valley, the Cordillera region, Lingayen, Bataan, and Catanduanes Island. They say that the relatively light complexion of the Bontoc and Banaue natives were probably a result of the early contacts the Japanese/Japanese-islanders from south Japan had with the natives of Cordillera.

During the Spanish era one source says this:


The Japanese population in the Philippines has since included descendants of Japanese Catholics and other Japanese Christians who fled from the religious persecution imposed by the Tokugawa shogunate during the Edo period and settled during the colonial period from the 17th century until the 19th century. A statue of daimyo Ukon Takayama, who was exiled to the Philippines in 1614 because he refused to disvow his Christian beliefs, stands a patch of land across the road from the Post Office building in the Paco, Manila. In the 17th century, the Spaniards referred to the Paco Area as the 'Yellow Plaza' because of the more than 3,000 Japanese who resided there.[13] In the 16th and 17th centuries, thousands of Japanese people traders also migrated to the Philippines and assimilated into the local population.[14] pp. 52–3

Many of the Japanese men intermarried with Filipino women (including those of mixed or unmixed Chinese and Spanish descent), thus forming the new Japanese mestizo community.[15] A sizeable population settled in Manila, Davao, the Visayas and in the 1600s in Dilao, Paco, and Ilocos Norte Province. This hybrid group tend to be re-assimilated either into the Filipino or the Japanese communities, and thus no accurate denominations could be established, though their estimates range from 100,000 to 200,000. Many were killed or expelled after World War II because of their alleged collaboration with the Japanese Imperial Army (mostly as translator). Many Japanese mestizos tended to deny their Japanese heritage and changed their family names in order to avoid discrimination.[citation needed]

[Iloko]

For his classification, he has Ainuid influence for sure.

Ishikawa, leaning more on the Ainuid phenotype imo.

http://humanphenotypes.net/Ishikawa.html
Yea he seems to have strong Proto-Mongoloid traits/influences, like Ainuid. It seems so obvious looking at his phenotype.

The Clarifai ethnicity demographic app says this when I uploaded his pic lol:
https://i.imgur.com/MJNnUOs.jpg

[Iloko]

Source: https://filipinotimes.net/news/2018/08/09/homeless-japanese-manila-refuses-go-home/

Homeless Japanese in Manila refuses to go home

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A Japanese citizen, who was seen wandering off the streets of Roxas Boulevard near Libertad last Tuesday, Aug. 6, reportedly refused offers of some netizens to fly him back to Japan.

The Facebook uploader of the viral video named Maribelle Ocampo, who regularly visits the man in the area, replied to a comment of a netizen who wanted to help the Japanese.

“Nalaman namin ini-sponsor na daw siya, pero ayaw niya daw po. Tapos ‘yung wife niya kinukuha na daw siya pero ayaw niya,” Ocampo wrote.

In the latest video uploaded by Ocampo, she asks Yoshino: “‘Yung asawa mo daw, kinukuha ka. Ayaw mo daw?”

The Japanese only shakes his head in the video and repeatedly says the word “embassy”. When Ocampo asks if he wants to go home, Yoshino answers: “Sige na please, sige na please.”

Most of what can be heard in the video are incomprehensible. Unverified comments of some netizens said he might have been wanted in Shimane Prefecture in Honshu, Japan and that it could be the reason why he refuses to go back. Others suspect that he is mentally ill. However, these are merely speculations yet to be confirmed by authorities.

Ocampo said that saving the homeless Japanese named Yasushi Yoshino will not be easy. “Hindi po madali talaga yun proseso kasi kung madali lang sana, kinuha na po talaga si Yasushi sa Japan Embassy,” she wrote in a comment.

Netizens are lamenting the condition of the man after seeing him in the video posted by Ocampo last Tuesday. He looks in distressed in the video with overgrown hair, clasping his umbrella for shelter.

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As of posting, Yoshino is still in Roxas Boulevard, but he was picked up Pasay Team Rescuers for a medical examination in the Pasay General Hospital.

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